Afternoon Delight: D-D-D-Dubsteppin'

So exactly what is ‘dubstep,’ you ask? A master, Marquese “Nonstop” Scott, shows how it changes from mechanical stop-starts to a liquid flow.

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Afternoon Delight is a daily diversion for when you’re just back from lunch, but not quite ready to get back to work. Check back weekdays at 1 p.m. for another one.

So exactly what is ‘dubstep,’ you ask? It can be more than just the limited, repetitious, robot ‘isolations,’ as this master — Marquese “Nonstop” Scott — shows. He really takes off around the 1:25 mark and again, around 3:20. It’s the contrast between the popping — the stop-start contortions — and the loose, liquid flow. If ballet is about the dancer taking flight, leaving the ground like a bird, the body becoming immaterial, this is the dancer’s body as malfunctioning equipment — changing instantly to the body as rolling wave.

Jerome Weeks is the Senior Arts Reporter/Producer for KERA. Previously at The Dallas Morning News, he was the book columnist for 10 years and the drama critic for 10 years before that. His writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, American Theatre and Men’s Vogue magazines. View more about Jerome Weeks.